Nino Basile

Nino Basile (born July 28, 1866 in Palermo , † April 11, 1937 there ) was an Italian historian and art historian .

One focus of his activity was the search for evidence of the history of Palermo. His knowledge of the manuscripts of older scholars such as Antonino Mongitore , which are preserved in the Biblioteca Comunale in Palermo and contain a lot of information about lost documents and buildings, was helpful to him . For example, he identified the facade details that came to light during a renovation of Villa Napoli in 1920 as remains of the Cuba Soprana and facade details on a building west of the historic old town as remains of the Norman church of Santa Maria della Speranza .

Nino Basile worked for the newspaper Giornale di Sicilia and was a member of several societies and commissions, including a.

• the Sicilian Society for Patriotic History ( Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria ),
• the Commission for the Preservation and Protection of Buildings in the Province of Palermo
• the Diocesan Commission for Sacred Art
• the commission for the cataloging and administration of sacred art as an expert for works of art.

Works (selection)

• La Cattedrale di Palermo (1926)
• La cupola immaginaria della Cattedrale di Palermo: metodi restaurativi e metodi polemici , Palermo 1935
• Serpottiana (1935)
• Palermo felicissima: divagazioni d'arte e di storia (vol. 1 1929, vol. 2 1932, vol. 3 1938, collection of the articles published in the “Giornale di Sicilia”. Reprinted in Palermo 1978)

Web links

• Nino Basile in the Archivo biografico communale di Palermo (Italian)
• Standard entry in the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (Italian)
• Writings in the Opac of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale